When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.