I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.