I Would Like To Be Famous But

The Secret Is To Follow The Advice The Masters Give You In Their Works While Doing Something Different From Them.

Art Critic! Is That A Profession? When I Think We Are Stupid Enough, We Painters, To Solicit Those People's Compliments And To Put Ourselves Into Their Hands! What Shame! Should We Even Accept That They Talk About Our Work?

What Use Is My Mind? Granted That It Enables Me To Hail A Bus And To Pay My Fare. But Once I Am Inside My Studio, What Use Is My Mind? I Have My Model, My Pencil, My Paints. My Mind Doesn't Interest Me.

I Don't Admit That A Woman Draws That Well!

Drawing Is The Artist's Most Direct And Spontaneous Expression, A Species Of Writing: It Reveals, Better Than Does Painting, His True Personality.