I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

An artist is his own fault.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.