In our beginnings, Fantin, Whistler and I were all on the same road, the road from Holland [Dutch 17th century painters] - Edgar Degas

Make portraits of people in familiar and typical positions, above all give their faces the same choice of expression one gives their bodies. Thus if laughter is typical for a person, make him laugh – there are, naturally, feelings that one cannot render…

Je n'admets pas qu'une femme puisse dessiner comme ca.

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.