"Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working."

"A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject matter."

"I am against ease. If one leaves the possibilities of getting a pension from the government for painting, to all the people who want to paint, all the Sunday painters will seize a brush. That is impos…"

"My drawings are sometimes hard to understand, but they are not difficult to make if you know how to draw."

"It has been my lot to be attacked by the critics, almost without exception, from the very first."