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

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

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.

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

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.