Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.
Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.
The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
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.