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.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

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.