The Frame Is The Reward Of The

Even In Front Of Nature One Must Compose.

The Museums Are Here To Teach The History Of Art And Something More As Well, For, If They Stimulate In The Weak A Desire To Imitate, They Furnish The Strong With The Means Of Their Emancipation.

An Artist Must Approach His Work In The Spirit Of The Criminal About To Commit A Crime.

I Always Urged My Contemporaries To Look For Interest And Inspiration To The Development And Study Of Drawing, But They Would Not Listen. They Thought The Road To Salvation Lay By The Way Of Colour.

The Artist Does Not Draw What He Sees, But What He Has To Make Others See.