Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

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.

It took me a lifetime.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.