Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.
The frame is the reward of the artist.
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
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.