Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.
The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.
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.