The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
Respectable people... What bastards!
The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.