Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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.
There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
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.