A Good Painting Should Be The Equivalent

Just Slap Something On It When You See A Blank Canvas Staring At You With A Sort Of Imbecility.

Ah, Manet Has Come Very, Very Close To It And Courbet - The Marrying Of Form And Colour.

To Exaggerate The Fairness Of Hair, I Come Even To Orange Tones, Chromes And Pale Yellow ... I Make A Plain Background Of The Richest, Intensest Blue That I Can Contrive, And By This Simple Combination Of The Bright Head Against The Rich Blue Background, I Get A Mysterious Effect, Like A Star In The Depths Of An Azure Sky.

Art Is Jealous, And Demands Our Whole Strength ... .

I Am A Man Of Passions, Capable Of And Subject To Doing More Or Less Foolish Things- Which I Happen To Regret, More Or Less, Afterwards.