It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

The true traveler never arrives.

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

Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.