I do not judge, I only chronicle.

I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.

I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it.

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.