Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting.

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

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!