Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
The true traveler never arrives.
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 fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.
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.
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?
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.
An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.
If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.
We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do).
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.
For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.
Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for himself, or at least preserve his own innocence of personality - he must once more sink himself in solitude. There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profit; in order to do anything at all we need (so to speak) the wit and ideas of our neighbors as much as the businessmen need the funds of others to win on the market. All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.
He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who do not see them? . . . I can find the best and clearest words to explain my meaning, and I have spoken to the most intelligent people about art, and they have not understood; but among people who understand, words are not necessary, you say humph, he, ha and everything has been said.
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