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..

Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period..

How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?.

The simplest subjects are the immortal ones..

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall..

A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and ….

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and no….

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child..

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it..

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing..

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature..

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity..

I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver..

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved..

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them..

I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it..

I've spent my life making blunders..

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible.