It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

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.

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

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.