I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints u…

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels…

Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality. With more in…

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it most assuredly is not a 'free' line, but an…