If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
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.
The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.
Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
What a horrible thing yellow is.