The artist is an educator of artists of the future . . . who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected -- the best -- evolutions.

"I think, therefore Descartes exists."

"A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx."

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

"At a performance of Pulcinella, Jean Hugo was sitting next to Picasso in Misia Sert's box. Suddenly, Picasso turned to him and asked: 'So, are you still painting by hand?' Hugo would be puzzled by it for years."