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

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.