Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'

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.

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?