It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.
It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.