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

Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

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

I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.

We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

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.