Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

The true traveler never arrives.

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.

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.

I should like to be famous and unknown.