The Secret Is To Follow The Advice

One Reproduces Only That Which Is Striking; That Is To Say, The Necessary. Thus, One's Recollections And Inventions Are Liberated From The Tyranny Which Nature Exerts.

In Painting You Must Give The Idea Of The True By Means Of The False.

I Would Have Been In Mortal Misery All My Life For Fear My Wife Might Say, "that's A Pretty Little Thing," After I Had Finished A Picture.

Be Sure To Give The Same Expression To A Person's Face That You Give To His Body.

Great Patience Is Called For On The Hard Path That I Have Entered On.