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.

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

There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

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

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

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.