But it's true, isn't it Pauline, that people imagine that the artists and their models spend their time getting up to all sorts of obscenities? As far as work goes, well, they paint or sculpt when they are tired of enjoying themselves.

Everybody has talent at twenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It i…

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make i…

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.