The true traveler never arrives.

There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter and Thetis" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.

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.

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!