It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.

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

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.

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.

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.

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.