He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
The frame is the reward of the artist.
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.