Make People's Portraits In Familiar And Typical

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.

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.

What A Horrible Thing Yellow Is.

Your Pictures Would Have Been Finished A Long Time Ago If I Were Not Forced Every Day To Do Something To Earn Money.

Daylight Is Too Easy. What I Want Is Difficult - The Atmosphere Of Lamps And Moonlight.