Until I saw Chardin's paintings, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Every artist was at first an amateur.

washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and ... he does it without destroying something else.