Art is an escape from reality.

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.

The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.