Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
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.
I like the rule that corrects emotion.
A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.
We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.
The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.