Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

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

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

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

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.