The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
The frame is the reward of the artist.
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.