Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.

Je voudrais etre illustre et inconnu.

I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so bad…

Visitor: Monsieur Degas, were there any of Monet's pictures at the Durand-Ruel exhibition? Degas: Why, I met Monet himself there, and I said to him, 'Let me ge…

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against thre…

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.