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.
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.
There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.
Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.
One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.