Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

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

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

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.

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.

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