An Artist Must Approach His

I Would Have Been In Mortal Misery All My Life For Fear My Wife Might Say, "that's A Pretty Little Thing," After I Had Finished A Picture.

I Don't Admit That A Woman Draws That Well!

The Air We See In The Paintings Of The Old Masters Is Never The Air We Breathe.

Everyone Has Talent At Twenty-five. The Difficulty Is To Have It At Fifty.

A Picture Is A Thing Which Requires As Much Knavery, As Much Malice, And As Much Vice As The Perpetration Of A Crime. Make It Untrue And Add An Accent Of Truth.