The true traveler never arrives.

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

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

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

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.

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.

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.