An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.