He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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.
Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.