The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning to produce in all ways, to battle as much as possible against time that drags us along, and the distractions that throw a veil over our soul.

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

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

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

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.