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.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling; it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower.

The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

With age, art and life become one.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.