In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?

He [ Titian ] is the least mannered and consequently the most varied of artists. Mannered talents have but one bias, one usage only. They are more apt to follo…

For his contemporaries, Racine was a romantic, but for every age he is classical, that is to say, he is faultless.

We are told that Shakespeare's plays were generally performed in barns and that no great trouble was taken over the production. The constant changes of scene w…

What the artist wishes to do - as far as you are concerned - is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

As I wanted to suggest a luxuriant and untamed type of nature, a tropical sun that sets aglow everything around it, I was obliged to give my figures a suitable…

Yo no pinto las cosas como las veo, yo pinto como las pienso.