"I would like to be a woman, but I do not want to be a housewife."

"The things we see are in our soul, not in the things. If Velazquez copies a photograph as best he can, he will get a Velazquez. If a fool copies a photograph exactly, he gets foolishness. So there is …"

"An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms."

"Everything alters me, but nothing changes me."

"What is a genius? A genius is a man who knows how to use his mind, his body, and his spirit to produce something that is new and original."