The Artist Begins With A Vision -

It Is Through The Human Figure That I Best Succeed In Expressing The Nearly Religious Feeling That I Have Towards Life.

You Study, You Learn, But You Guard The Original Naivete. It Has To Be Within You, As Desire For Drink Is Within The Drunkard Or Love Is Within The Lover.

What Interests Me Most Is Neither Still Life Nor Landscape, But The Human Figure.

A Rapid Rendering Of A Landscape Represents Only One Moment Of Its Existence. I Prefer, By Insisting Upon Its Essential Character, To Risk Losing Charm In Order To Gain Greater Stability.

A Distinction Is Made Between Artists Who Work Directly From Nature And Those Who Work Purely From Imagination. Neither If These Methods Should Be Preferred To The Exclusion Of The Other. Often Both Are Used In Turn By The Same Man.