Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

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.

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

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

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.