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.

Work cures everything.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.