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.

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

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.

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.

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

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

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.