I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

The frame is the reward of the artist.

The true traveler never arrives.

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

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