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.