I should like to be famous and unknown.
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.
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.
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.