If Painting Weren't So Difficult, It Wouldn't

I Felt So Insufficiently Equipped, So Unprepared, So Weak, And At The Same Time It Seemed To Me That My Reflections On Art Were Correct. I Quarreled With All The World And With Myself.

Only When He No Longer Knows What He Is Doing Does The Painter Do Good Things.

Art' Is The Same Word As 'artifice,' That Is To Say, Something Deceitful. It Must Succeed In Giving The Impression Of Nature By False Means.

The Frame Is The Reward Of The Artist.

Make People's Portraits In Familiar And Typical Attitudes.