Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

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

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

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

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.