Truth Is Never Ugly When One Can

There Are Some Women Who Should Barely Be Spoken To; They Should Only Be Caressed.

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.

For Those Who Don't Know What They Are Doing, Painting Is Easy. For Those Who Do Know What They Are Doing, Painting Is Difficult.

It Is All Very Well To Copy What One Sees, But It Is Far Better To Draw What One Now Only Sees In One's Memory. That Is A Transformation In Which Imagination Collaborates With Memory.

The Air You Breathe In A Picture Is Not Necessarily The Same As The Air Out Of Doors.