Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

The source of genius is imagination alone.

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

What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

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