One Must Have A High Opinion Of

A Painting Is Above All A Product Of The Artist's Imagination, It Must Never Be A Copy. If, At A Later Stage, He Wants To Add Two Or Three Touches From Nature, Of Course It Doesn't Spoil Anything.

Drawing Is Not The Same As Form, It Is A Way Of Seeing Form.

Art Critic! Is That A Profession? When I Think We Are Stupid Enough, We Painters, To Solicit Those People's Compliments And To Put Ourselves Into Their Hands! What Shame! Should We Even Accept That They Talk About Our Work?

We Were Created To Look At One Another, Weren't We?

What Is Certain Is That Setting A Piece Of Nature In Place And Drawing It Are Two Very Different Things.