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.

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

Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

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.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.