There is no art without contemplation.

Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art.

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.

There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.