In Painting You Must Give The Idea

I Have Been, Or Seemed, Hard With Everyone Because I Was Carried Away By A Sort Of Brutality Born Of My Distrust In Myself And My Ill-humor. I Have Felt So Badly Equipped, So Soft, In Spite Of The Fact That My Attitude Towards Art Seemed To Me So Just. I Was Disgusted With Everyone, And Especially Myself.

Nothing In Art Should Seem Accidental, Not Even Movement

One Must Have A High Opinion Of A Work Of Art - Not The Work One Is Creating At The Moment, But Of That Which One Desires To Achieve One Day. Without This It Is Not Worthwhile Working.

The Air We See In The Paintings Of The Old Masters Is Never The Air We Breathe.

I Feel As A Horse Must Feel When The Beautiful Cup Is Given To The Jockey.