There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

I should like to be famous and unknown.

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

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.'