Everyone Knows That Yellow, Orange, And Red

Cold Exactitude Is Not Art... The So-called Consciousness Of The Majority Of Painters Is Only Perfection Applied To The Art Of Boring. People Like That, If They Could, Would Work With The Same Minute Attention On The Back Of Their Canvas.

Seeing Artistically Does Not Happen Automatically. We Must Constantly Develop Our Powers Of Observation.

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!

Curiously Enough, The Sublime Is Generally Achieved Through Want Of Proportion.

What Makes Sovereign Ugliness Are Our Conventions.