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.

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

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

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.

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.

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