I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.

Jealousy will drive you mad.

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.

Marriage is a dinner that begins with dessert.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it!

I have always been a pencil.

In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.