Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

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

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

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

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.