Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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.