The frame is the reward of the artist.

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do).

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

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

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.

It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for himself, or at least preserve his own innocence of personality - he must once more sink himself in solitude. There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profit; in order to do anything at all we need (so to speak) the wit and ideas of our neighbors as much as the businessmen need the funds of others to win on the market. All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.