If Painting Weren't So Difficult, It Wouldn't

A Picture Is An Artificial Work, Outside Nature. It Calls For As Much Cunning As The Commission Of A Crime.

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

The Moods Of Sadness That Come Over Anyone Who Takes Up Art... These Dismal Moods Have Very Little Compensation.

Once They Witnessed One Of His Painting Sold At Auction For $100,000. And Asked How You Do It, He Said, 'i Feel As A Horse Must Feel When The Beautiful Cup Is Given To The Jockey.'

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.