All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

My work is like a diary. To understand it, you have to see how it mirrors life.

I'm a Baroque person. More than Baroque, I'm a Rococo person. I don't draw straight lines.

It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.