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

Instantaneity is photography.

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

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.

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.

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