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

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them nearly formed around him, already within reach. He saw them in a bone, in the bumps of a cave, in a piece of wood. One form suggested a woman to him, another a buffalo, still another the head of a monster.

If I don't have red, I use blue.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.