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

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

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

It's with my brush that I make love.

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

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.