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

C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do).

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?