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.

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

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

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.

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.