Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
The true traveler never arrives.
You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.
I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?
If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.
An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.
We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
The frame is the reward of the artist.
C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do).
One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
I should like to be famous and unknown.
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.
I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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