I Would Like To Be Famous But

In Painting You Must Give The Idea Of The True By Means Of The False.

I Have Been, Or Seemed, Hard With Everyone Because I Was Carried Away By A Sort Of Brutality Born Of My Distrust In Myself And My Ill-humor. I Have Felt So Badly Equipped, So Soft, In Spite Of The Fact That My Attitude Towards Art Seemed To Me So Just. I Was Disgusted With Everyone, And Especially Myself.

The Secret Is To Follow The Advice The Masters Give You In Their Works While Doing Something Different From Them.

I Always Urged My Contemporaries To Look For Interest And Inspiration To The Development And Study Of Drawing, But They Would Not Listen. They Thought The Road To Salvation Lay By The Way Of Colour.

The Fascinating Thing, Is Not To Show The Source Of Light, But The Effect Of Light.