"We were created to look at one another, weren't we."

"It is all well and good to copy what one sees, but it is much better to draw only what remains in one's memory. This …"

"I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but th…"

"I put it [a still life of a pear, made by Manet there [on the wall, next to Ingres' painting 'Jupiter'], for a pear l…"

"Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money."

"I am busy on a portrait of my self and my aunt and my two cousins, I will show it to you when you get back. I am doin…"

"Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature."

"It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious — to cut out a little original niche for himself, or at…"

"Make portraits of people in familiar and typical positions, above all give their faces the same choice of expression …"

"A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody."