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

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

Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

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

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

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

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.