In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

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

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

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.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

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.