I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

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.

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

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

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.