Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

There is no model, there is only color.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.