C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do).

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different 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.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who do not see them? . . . I can find the best and clearest words to explain my meaning, and I have spoken to the most intelligent people about art, and they have not understood; but among people who understand, words are not necessary, you say humph, he, ha and everything has been said.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.