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.

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.'

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

Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.