You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.
Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement
The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.
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.