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.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

One does not marry art. One ravishes it.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

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