Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

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.

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.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

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.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.