There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

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 fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

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

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?