Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

One does not marry art. One ravishes it.

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.

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

The true traveler never arrives.

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.