People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.
And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.
I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.