For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.

One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.

I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing.

Colour is the skin of the world.

It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.

In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.

The sun rises at midnight.

ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light

ZENITHNOON beats outon its solar anvilthe rays of light

I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?

I have never been reduced to begging somebody to leave me alone, but in your case I’ll make an exception.

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

Everyone is a flux - so it's good to suspend judgements forever.

No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.

Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.