It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.

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.