It's with my brush that I make love.

In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.