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

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.

For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

Good designers copy; great designers steal.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.