Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?

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.

Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?

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

I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.