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.

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.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

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

Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.