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.

I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

Painting is a jeu d'esprit.

Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.