I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.

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.

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

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.

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