What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.