There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting.

The true traveler never arrives.

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.

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.