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

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

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

I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind.

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.

All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.

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