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.

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.

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.

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

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

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

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.