The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.

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.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

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

The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.

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.

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