It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

I should like to be famous and unknown.

The frame is the reward of the artist.

There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.

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.

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