Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false

Monet's pictures are always too draughty for me.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.