All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Basically the French are all peasants.