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

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

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

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

The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.

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.

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