"You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies."

"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,"

"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."

"The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality"

"The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality."

"In art the best is good enough."

"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."

"Babe, it must be art"

"There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it."

"If I don't understand it, it must be art."

"There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them."

"When I write, I try to become different characters."

"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."

"I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences."

"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."

"The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see."

"I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!"

"The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater."

"A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you."

"What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs."

"I have been for forty years discovering that the queen of all colors was black."

"The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible"

"I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts."

"A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved."