A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

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.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter and Thetis" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.

C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do).

I should like to be famous and unknown.

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.