It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.