To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.