The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

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

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

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.

What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.

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.

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.