“To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.”

“Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.”

“There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.”

“The more they measure, the more they realize how much the Greeks departed from regular and banal lines in order to produce their effect.”

“-last words about painting, age 78...I think I'm beginning to learn something about it.”

“I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.”

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”