The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

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

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

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.