To paint a beautiful woman I would need to see many, but since beautiful women are scarce, I make use of a certain idea that comes to my mind.

Painting is made not to describe truth but to create beauty.

A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.

-- Coco Chanel

What beauty is, I know not.

-- Albrecht Dürer

Every painter paints himself.

-- Caravaggio

Art is a line around your thoughts.

-- Gustav Klimt

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

-- Henri Matisse