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

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for himself, or at least preserve his own innocence of personality - he must once more sink himself in solitude. There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profit; in order to do anything at all we need (so to speak) the wit and ideas of our neighbors as much as the businessmen need the funds of others to win on the market. All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.

Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.