What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.