The Secret Of Not Having

Not Only Can Color, Which Is Under Fixed Laws, Be Taught Like Music, But It Is Easier To Learn Than Drawing, Whose Elaborate Principles Cannot Be Taught.

Nature Is A Dictionary; One Draws Words From It.

One Always Has To Spoil A Picture A Little Bit, In Order To Finish It.

If Painters Left Nothing Of Themselves After Their Deaths, So That We Were Obliged To Rank Them As We Do Actors According To The Judgment Of Their Contemporaries, How Different Their Reputations Would Be From What Posterity Has Made Them!

To Be Understood A Writer Has To Explain Almost Everything.