Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.

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

Painting, in the beginning, was a trade like any other. Some men became picture-makers as others became glaziers or carpenters. Painters painted shields, saddl…

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…

Variant: I prefer to tack the canvas to the floor... I can walk around work from the four sides and literally be in the painting... this is akin to the method …

Had Shakspeare and Milton lived in the atmosphere of modern feeling, had they had the multitude of new thoughts and feelings to deal with a modern has, I think…

When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.