The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.