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.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.

Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.

There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.