Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.