Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

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.

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

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

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