There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

There are more copies than originals among people.

Basically the French are all peasants.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.