It is easy to finish things. Nothing is simpler. Never does one lie so cleverly as then..

I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas..

Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore..

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting..

Marriage is a dinner that begins with dessert..

I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up..

Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must gather my coura….

When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscape….

I am certainly not regenerating French art, but am struggling hard to accomplish something on an unlucky piece of paper which has done me no harm at ….

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record..

Jealousy will drive you mad..

A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive..

Of course one should not drink much, but often..

The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and a….

[People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. ... Nothing is simpler than to complete pictures in a sup….

I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much diffic….

Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.... - Comte de Toulouse.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal..

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature..

I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more..

In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceivi….