Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
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.
We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.
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.