“C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do).”

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

“I want to be famous but unknown!”

“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?”

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

“Art is vice. You don't wed it, 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”