The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.
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 a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
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.