I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.
What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.
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.