I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty.
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
Art is made to trouble but science reassures.
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.