“Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?”

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

“Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.”

“Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.”

“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people”

“And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.”