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.

I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

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

I should like to be famous and unknown.