Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !

Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

I have never painted a recent picture.

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

An original is a creation motivated by desire.