I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.

The frame is the reward of the artist.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

I should like to be famous and unknown.

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.

One does not marry art. One ravishes it.