A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
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.