Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.

Drawing is the honesty of art.

What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything has been discovered.

Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be abolished.

It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.

You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes.

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.

Gratitude is a choice which can change our lives for the better.

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.

Benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy.

Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities.

Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.

If you're with one person, then you don't have to meet other people. It's like when you're acting in a movie, you don't have to audition for other movies. I prefer that.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

The only way one can display learning is by playing with it. Because the truth is that there's something embarrassing about displaying heavy knowledge. You feel sort of annoying.

I'm going to change my image - backward caps, the lot.