Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.
Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.