I Have Never Painted A Recent Picture.

An Effort Impelled By Desire Must Also Have An Automatic Or Subconscious Energy To Aid Its Realization.

A Certain Amount Of Contempt For The Material Employed To Express An Idea Is Indispensable To The Purest Realization Of This Idea.

One Of The Satisfactions Of A Genius Is His Will-power And Obstinacy.

Oh, Yes, I Was A Great Retoucher. A Retoucher Is An Esthetic Surgeon !

I Paint What Cannot Be Photographed, Something From The Imagination... I Photograph The Things I Don't Want To Paint, Things That Are Already In Existence.