Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

What a horrible thing yellow is.

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.

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.

These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement