I Am The Primitive Of

I Have Not Tried To Reproduce Nature; I Have Represented It.

Two Sittings A Day Of My Models And I'm Totally Exhausted.

To Be Sure An Artist Wishes To Raise His Standard Intellectually As Much As Possible, But The Man Must Remain In Obscurity. Pleasure Must Be Found In The Studying.

The Louvre Is The Book In Which We Learn To Read.

If Isolation Tempers The Strong, It Is The Stumbling-block Of The Uncertain.