And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.