I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it!

A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.

I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.... - Comte de Toulouse

With all our reasons for living. Through our love and laughter, there's an unmistakable truth. The most valuable love in the world is a healthy relationship with our children.

Don’t ever perceive other people’s success as your own failure.

The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.

I do feel a certain love from the British public.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.