In love, the one who runs away is the winner.

Exactitude is not truth.

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.

I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.