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

Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

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

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy. If then two or three natural accents can be added, obviously no harm is done. The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.