What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

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

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

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that dress clings to it, and woe to the works which appear in periods when the general taste is corrupted.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.