Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.

The artist has only to trust his eyes.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.