There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

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.

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

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?