The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.

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

There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.

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.

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.