“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”

“Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.”

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

“When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.”

“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. ”

“Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.”