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

There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When a painter discovers this hidden treasure, other people are immediately struck by its beauty.

It's with my brush that I make love.

Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

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