To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.

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.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Work cures everything.