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Everybody has their reasons.
Why should beauty be suspect?
White does not exist in nature.
I've spent my life making blunders.
It's with my brush that I make love.
God, the king of artists, was clumsy.
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.
"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."
The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.
Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.
People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.
Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.
A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.
Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.
I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.
Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.
I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.
There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.
Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible