If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

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

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

I don't work from nature, I work like nature.

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