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.

...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

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.

Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.