The frame is the reward of the artist.

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

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.

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.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.