Intimacy is a difficult art.
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!
What I have done cannot be taken from me.
Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.
Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.
Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for your own enslavement.
I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.
As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.