Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

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

I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.

When you're really young, you're young for life.

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

Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

I am exhausted if I don't work.