All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

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.

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

Nothing can be accomplished without love.

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.