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.

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.

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Art is an escape from reality.

I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much use; on the contrary it paralyses the imagination of the spectator, and obliges us to see the person in a certain way.