The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

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.

It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

What a horrible thing yellow is.

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.

The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.