I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
I paint as if I were Rothschild.