One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.