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We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.

It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.

Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.

God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm ... he really paints men.

[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.

The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model.

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror?

When a thing bores you, do not do it.

The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.

A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.

What drives men of genius is their obsession with the idea that what has already been done is not good enough.

Men of genius are made not by new ideas, but by an idea which possesses them, namely, that what has been said has not yet been sufficiently said.

One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.

Draftsmen may be made, but colorists are born.

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

The source of genius is imagination alone.

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.

When all is said and done scholars can do no more than find in nature what is already there.

In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.

The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.

A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

What I have done cannot be taken from me.

The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

One never paints violently enough.