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.

Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

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

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.