As Ability Goes, So Goes Our Fortune.

The Function Of The Painter Is To Render... The Visible Surface So That At A Certain Distance... And Position It Appears... Like The Body Itself.

A Common Error Of Ignorance Is To Maintain That What One Does Not Know Does Not Exist.

The Picture Will Have Charm When Each Color Is Very Unlike The One Next To It.

I Prefer You To Take As Your Model A Mediocre Sculpture Rather Than An Excellent Painting, For From Painted Objects We Train Our Hand Only To Make A Likeness, Whereas From Sculptures We Learn To Represent Both Likeness And Correct Incidence Of Light.

The Greatest Work Of An Artist Is The History Of A Painting.