"The greatest art is that which expresses the deepest human emotions."

"I admire how you let your body and my body die in your love—but you must forgive me if I do not feel the heat of this love in myself."

"Art comes from the inner life of man."

"I build a kind of wall between myself and the model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me."

"The trees are like spectres, the sky is like a bleeding wound."