I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

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

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

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.