Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Monet's pictures are always too draughty for me.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

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.