One Never Paints Violently Enough.

If Painters Left Nothing Of Themselves After Their Deaths, So That We Were Obliged To Rank Them As We Do Actors According To The Judgment Of Their Contemporaries, How Different Their Reputations Would Be From What Posterity Has Made Them!

Real Beauty In The Arts Is Eternal And Would Be Accepted At All Periods; But It Wears The Dress Of Its Century: Something Of That Dress Clings To It, And Woe To The Works Which Appear In Periods When The General Taste Is Corrupted.

One Should Not Be Too Difficult. An Artist Should Not Treat Himself Like An Enemy.

The Secret Of Not Having Worries, For Me At Least, Is To Have Ideas.

Painters Who Are Not Colorists Produce Illumination, Not Painting.