“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”

“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”

“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.”

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

“Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.”

“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”

“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.”

“It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.”

“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”

“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”

“Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.”

“Insight is the first condition of Art.”

“There is nothing new in art except talent.”