I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.

Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it.

I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances,

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.