We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Art is a wound turned into light.

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.

But the more I think it, the more I want her, the more my desire rises and swells.

The morning is wiser than the evening.

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.

My dad's a professor of medicine my mum was a nurse. My little sister is going into healthcare. My older sister is a nurse my brother's in finance - I'm the runt of the litter.

Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Isn't it amazing what scientists can accomplish when no one makes them stop?

There are many cases around the world in which the presence of UN peace-keeping forces has had a somewhat beneficial effect.

What greater wound is there than a false friend?

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.