C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do)..

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters..

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is j….

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people..

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance..

Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with….

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs..

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do..

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown..

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty..

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?.

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime..

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form..

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see..

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?.

The true traveler never arrives..

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white..

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which ima….

The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light..

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see..

If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun..