Make People's Portraits In Familiar And Typical

Conversation In Real Life Is Full Of Half-finished Sentences And Overlapping Talk. Why Shouldn't Painting Be Too?

A Picture Is A Thing Which Requires As Much Knavery, As Much Malice, And As Much Vice As The Perpetration Of A Crime. Make It Untrue And Add An Accent Of Truth.

A Picture Is First Of All A Product Of The Artist's Imagination, It Must Never Be A Copy.

Art Is Really A Battle.

He Once Said That He Wished To Be Famous, But Unknown.