I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.

I am certainly not regenerating French art, but am struggling hard to accomplish something on an unlucky piece of paper which has done me no harm at all, and on which, believe me, I am doing nothing that is good... I hope things will improve eventually; as it is, I am pretty wretched.

It is easy to finish things. Nothing is simpler. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.