A good reputation is more valuable than money.
While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.
Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.
Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.
Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.
For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.
To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.
I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing. . . . Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve.
I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer.
I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect
I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.