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

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?

I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.

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.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.