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.

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

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.

[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact.

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