The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

Painting is saying 'Ta' to God.

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom