The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.
Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.