When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
It's with my brush that I make love.
There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.
My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.
And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.