The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.