When A Thing Bores You, Do Not

Curiously Enough, The Sublime Is Generally Achieved Through Want Of Proportion.

What Is Real For Me Are The Illusions I Create With My Paintings. Everything Else Is Quicksand.

Even When We Look At Nature, Our Imagination Constructs The Picture.

Experience Alone Can Give, Even To The Greatest Talent, That Confidence In Having Done All That Could Be Done.

If Painters Left Nothing Of Themselves After Their Deaths, So That We Were Obliged To Rank Them As We Do Actors According To The Judgment Of Their Contemporaries, How Different Their Reputations Would Be From What Posterity Has Made Them!