Fine art is knowledge made visible.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without . . . having painted as much as you can cover with your hand, to please somebody or in order to sell the picture more easily.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

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.'