I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.

Youth has no age.

If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.

I am exhausted if I don't work.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.