Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

Everybody has their reasons.

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

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.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

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.