If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
I should like to be famous and unknown.
There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.
An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.