“Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.”

“Art is not a thing it is a way.”

“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”

“Trying to force creativity is never good.”

“In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.”

“I think about my work every minute of the day.”

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”

“All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.”

“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”