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.

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

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

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

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

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

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