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

I paint what I think, not what I see.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes

What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.

It took me a lifetime.