To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

What's left is a cultural economy where only the privileged can afford to create, and where only immediately profitable art survives.

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature. It is always best to have recourse to nature, which is replete with such abundance of objects, than to the productions of other masters, who learnt everything from her.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.