There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.

The frame is the reward of the artist.

What a horrible thing yellow is.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy. If then two or three natural accents can be added, obviously no harm is done. The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

One does not marry art. One ravishes it.