Art Is Vice. You Don't Marry It

An Artist Must Approach His Work In The Spirit Of The Criminal About To Commit A Crime.

Everyone Has Talent At Twenty-five. The Difficulty Is To Have It At Fifty.

Do Portraits Of People In Familiar And Typical Attitudes, Above All Give To Their Face The Same Choice Of Expression That One Gives To Their Body.

I Would Have Been In Mortal Misery All My Life For Fear My Wife Might Say, "that's A Pretty Little Thing," After I Had Finished A Picture.

Make People's Portraits In Familiar And Typical Attitudes.