If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them.

Can't a person be born where they want to be born?