What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?

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

Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

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.

It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.