Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
I should like to be famous and unknown.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.