People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
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.