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

I should like to be famous and unknown.

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

I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter and Thetis" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.

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

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.

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