I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.

In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

Everybody has their reasons.

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.