In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge..

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business..

Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night..

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block..

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant..

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme..

Art is either revolution or plagiarism.

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several..

I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer..

A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it..

The work of a man is the explanation of the man..

What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?.

Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers ….

I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates..

However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end..

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite..

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; ….

The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the mo….

With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique..

My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!.