Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

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.

Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.

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

The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.