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

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

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

When a thing bores you, do not do it..

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

Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like th….

Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal ….

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you wil….

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

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

The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning to produce in all wa….

Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are….

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal..

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

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

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

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes..

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

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..

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not….

One never paints violently enough..