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.

I should like to be famous and unknown.

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

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

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

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?