Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy. If then two or three natural accents can be added, obviously no harm is done. The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?