Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.
There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.
Drawing is your understanding of form.
So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter and Thetis" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
Even in front of nature one must compose.
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
Art is really a battle.
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.
Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.
I would like to be famous but unknown.
A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.
What a horrible thing yellow is.
There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.
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