(Jean) Fautrier's exhibition (in Paris 1945,fh) made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in its pur….

Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.].

Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow….

I'm actually more confident when I'm tan..

I never said to myself, "I'm going to be the greatest." I just wanted to do my own thing..

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be..

I'm happy to be where I am and how everything has turned out..

When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either..

I'm not just anybody.' 'No, indeed. Nobody is..

You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good..

Only in Paris do couture workers, from seamstress to mannequin, worship a dress and treat it like a baby..

I have a family to feed..

At this moment, my soul is in Lebanon, my heart in Paris, and my body in New York..

I'm happy with what I've achieved..

You can't even see it. I'm the safest thing you'll ever find.

Not everyone has something to say. This will not stop them from saying it..

Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice to Toledo (where El Grec….

I love to be the lead, but you can't always be the lead..

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for th….

In London, theatregoers expect to laugh; in Paris, they wait grimly for proof that they should..

I'm not Misbah, Mishah is not me.