I have always been a pencil.

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.

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

Mine is the blood of the dragon.

The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home!

It's the greatest thing in the world, natural enthusiasm. You are nothing without it.

Who cares and who doesn't care about a project, is going to shape the project in a significant way.

It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.

When a man is attacked in print, it's usually for saying what he says; when a woman is attacked in print, it's often for being who she is.

Unix is back in vogue.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.