What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Art isn't something you marry, it's something you rape.