You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

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

The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.

I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.