You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.