Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'

There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.

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

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

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.

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.

I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.