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

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

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

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

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

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.

Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting.