Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.
History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.
Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.
I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great master paintings. . . And then finally, they leap, they take off. . . they become themselves. Then it looks like they just came out of nowhere. Just like 'Pow!'
I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.
We are attacked by radio and television and visual communication at such speed and with such force that painting seems very old fashioned. . . why shouldn't it be done with that power and gusto [of advertising], with that impact.
I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
I call government that works the best for people open society, which is basically just another more general term for a democracy that is - you call it maybe a liberal democracy. It's not only majority rule but also respect for minorities and minority opinions and the rule of law. So it's really a sort of institutional democracy.
Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly. So I write melodies-thirty, forty, fifty-then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. That happened one time with Jacques Demy for the duo of the twins [in Les demoiselles de Rochefort]: I went to his house in Noirmoutier to play 35 possible themes for him.