“Good design doesn’t date.”

“I never know what I’m going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I’m just the middleman.”

“Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.”

“I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.”

“In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.”

“I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.”

“Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.”

“The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.”

“Even a true artist does not always produce art.”

“Great artists suffer for the people.”

“Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.”

“Art depends on luck and talent.”

“I realize that every picture isn’t a work of art.”

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”

“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”