"It is evident that in order to make good artists it is necessary that they not eat too well."

"The model is not there to be copied; it is there to be translated."

"The importance of an artist is to be measured by the number of new signs he has introduced into the language of art."

"I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth, when all the world is new to it."

"He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free."