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

Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.

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.

Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.