A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.

If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.

The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.