Nothing can be accomplished without love.

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

I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism, regardless of its source. I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

My curves are not crazy.