All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.

Happy is he who causes a scandal