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.

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.

In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

Exactitude is not truth.

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.