It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.

There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.