A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.