The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.

It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

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.

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

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