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

“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?”

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

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

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

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

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