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.
I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
In love, the one who runs away is the winner.
Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.