Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.
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.
I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.
There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.
My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.