Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents

Happy is he who causes a scandal

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning