Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.
It is either easy or impossible.
The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.