I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.

All my work begins with drawings.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

One of the first drawings I did in Paris - I wasn't thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or other, I kept drawing - I bought a hyacinth flower with a lot of leaves, just to make me feel like spring.

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.