Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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.
It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.
Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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.