People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

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

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

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.

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.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.