I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

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

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

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.

Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.