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

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun