The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

I will be sof brief, I have already finished.

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.