I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter and Thetis" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.
Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.
If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
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.