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

The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.

I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.

These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.

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

I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.