There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.
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.
Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.
Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.