Fine Art Is Knowledge Made Visible.

I Hope Always To Earn My Living By My Art Without Having Ever Deviated By Even A Hair's Breadth From My Principles... To Please Anyone Or To Sell More Easily.

Painting Is An Essentially Concrete Art And Can Only Consist Of The Representation Of Real And Existing Things.

The State Is Not Competent In Artistic Matters... When The State Leaves Us Free, It Will Have Carried Out Its Duty.

Beauty, Like Truth, Is Relative To The Time When One Lives And To The Individual Who Can Grasp It.

Art Or Talent, For An Artist, Is Merely A Means Of Applying His Personal Faculties To The Ideas And The Things Of The Period In Which He Lives.