So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

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.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.

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

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.