Creation begins with vision.

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

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

A certain blue enters your soul

The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

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.