The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

One day the world will look upon research on animals as it now looks upon research on human beings. Da Vinci.