A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement