When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Sex and art are the same thing.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

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.