The Artist Does Not Draw What He

No Art Is Less Spontaneous Than Mine. What I Do Is The Result Of Reflection And The Study Of The Great Masters.

If I Could Have Had My Own Way, I Would Have Confined Myself To Black And White.

I Feel As A Horse Must Feel When The Beautiful Cup Is Given To The Jockey.

A Picture Is A Thing Which Requires As Much Knavery, As Much Malice, And As Much Vice As The Perpetration Of A Crime. Make It Untrue And Add An Accent Of Truth.

You Have To Have A High Conception, Not Of What You Are Doing, But Of What You May Do One Day: Without That, There's No Point In Working.