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.

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

I should like to be famous and unknown.

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.

I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.

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.