France Is The Only Nation In Which

I Am Fifty Years Old And I Have Always Lived In Freedom; Let Me End My Life Free; When I Am Dead Let This Be Said Of Me: 'he Belonged To No School, To No Church, To No Institution, To No Academy, Least Of All To Any Regime Except The Regime Of Liberty.'

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

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

The State Is Not Competent In Artistic Matters... When The State Leaves Us Free, It Will Have Carried Out Its Duty.

Art Is A Wholly Physical Language Whose Words Are All The Visible Objects.