The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

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.

Le dessin n'est pas la forme, il est la maniere de voir la forme.

I have three masters: Nature, Velazquez and Rembrandt.

I never read. I just look at pictures.

I feel I'm happily inspired now on Classical soil: The Past and Present speak louder, more charmingly. Here, as advised, I leaf through the works of the Ancien…