Art is made to trouble but science reassures.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Out of limitations, new forms emerge

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.

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.

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