Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

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

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

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.

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.