There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

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

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

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

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.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

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