When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important
The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.
I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.
I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty.'
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.