There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art.

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.