There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.