Chatter About Art Is Almost Always Useless.

I Have Not Tried To Reproduce Nature; I Have Represented It.

One Must See One's Model Correctly And Experience It In The Right Way; And Furthermore Express Oneself Forcibly And With Distinction.

A Thousand Painters Ought To Be Killed Yearly. Say What You Like: I'm Every Inch A Painter.

What Is One To Think Of Those Fools Who Tell One That The Artist Is Always Subordinate To Nature? Art Is A Harmony Parallel With Nature.

Painting Is Founded On The Heart Controlled By The Head.