Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.

Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

I have had no true friends, only lovers.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.