Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.

If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.

All Children are Artists

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.