"I have always been a pencil."

"Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired."

"I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record."

"Le vieux con!"

"I am quite incapable of doing them [making landscapes], even the shadow. My trees look like spinach and my sea like h…"

"I'm very much alone all day, I read a litle but, in the long run, it gives me a headache. I draw and paint as much as…"

"I have tried to draw realistically and not ideally.. .It may be a defect, for I have no mercy on warts, and I like ad…"

"I could never have believed that such kindness existed: to receive my wretched drawings and then thank me into the ba…"

"When my pencil starts moving, it must be allowed its head or - bang! - nothing more happens."

"There are two young Englishmen in the next rooms to ours who are superb; their two sisters, looking like umbrellas, a…"