When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

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

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.