The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly..

To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to w….

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time..

Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do..

I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts..

I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my w….

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness..

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art..

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable..

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit..

People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance..

You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composin….

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.".

If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if t….

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas ….

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums..

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished..

The most important element in a picture cannot be defined..

Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble; one is carried….

I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that ….

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw..