I imitate everyone except myself.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.

We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I sometimes marked my canvases on the back. If you don't see my signature and the date, madam, it's because the frame is hiding it.

For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping

How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.