Instantaneity is photography.

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

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.

I should like to be famous and unknown.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

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.

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!