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

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

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.

Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting.

I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.