We Must Not Be Content To Memorize

Literature Expresses Itself By Abstractions, Whereas Painting, By Means Of Drawing And Colour, Gives Concrete Shape To Sensations And Perceptions.

One Is Neither Too Scrupulous Nor Too Sincere Nor Too Submissive To Nature; But One Is More Or Less Master Of One's Model, And, Above All, Of The Means Of Expression.

The Louvre Is The Book In Which We Learn To Read.

You Must Think. The Eye Is Not Enough; It Needs To Think As Well.

It Is Impossible For Emotion Not To Come On Us In Thinking Of That Time Now Flowed Away.