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

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'

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.

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.

These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.