The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.

The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.