Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement
People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.
Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.