The frame is the reward of the artist.

The frame is the reward of the artist.

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.

I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter and Thetis" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.

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

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.

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