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.'

I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

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

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

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.