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

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

Instantaneity is photography.

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

I should like to be famous and unknown.

Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.

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.