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Art is really a battle.
Instantaneity is photography.
The true traveler never arrives.
What a horrible thing yellow is.
The frame is the reward of the artist.
I would like to be famous but unknown.
Drawing is your understanding of form.
I should like to be famous and unknown.
One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
Even in front of nature one must compose.
I don't admit that a woman draws that well!
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.
He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement
Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.
Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.
Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.
There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.
Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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.
I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.
The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.
If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.
The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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.
The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.
The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.
An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.