Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.
Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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.
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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.