Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?

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

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

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.