I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.

Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.