To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools. . . I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
So if you think being thin is enough to succeed in gymnastics, you're wrong.
I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.
I don't see my show as a stepping stone to something else like some people, who get a job then have a foot out the door looking for their next job.