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

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art

You don't put robbers to work in a bank

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened