One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
I imitate everyone except myself.
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.