There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.

If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.