Art Or Talent, For An Artist, Is

It Is Fatal For Art If It Is Forced Into Official Respectability And Condemned To Sterile Mediocrity.

I Have Never Seen Either Angels Or Goddesses, So I Am Not Interested In Painting Them.

I Hope Always To Earn My Living By My Art Without Having Ever Deviated By Even A Hair's Breadth From My Principles... To Please Anyone Or To Sell More Easily.

I Hope To Live All My Life For My Art, Without Abandoning My Principles One Iota, Without . . . Having Painted As Much As You Can Cover With Your Hand, To Please Somebody Or In Order To Sell The Picture More Easily.

Beauty, Like Truth, Is Relative To The Time When One Lives And To The Individual Who Can Grasp It.