In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.
One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.