It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.
A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?
Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'