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?
Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.
It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.
There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.
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.