Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

I work with talented people. I'm just their tool.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office!