People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
The frame is the reward of the artist.
It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.
Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?