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 artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.
Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.
Instantaneity is photography.
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
One does not marry art. One ravishes it.