The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

But that is what being an artist <i>is</i>

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nat

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.