Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

Everything you can imagine is real.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.