Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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.
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.