Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting.

Painting is not very difficult when you don't know how; but when you know, oh! then, it's another matter.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music b…

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say. I have somet…

In his countenance this person read an expression of no-encouragement towards his venture.