I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

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

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.

When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important

Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.

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.

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

Have been most timid of cowards from day of birth, " replied Li Han, without shame, "and this is an inauspicious day."- "No it ain't, " said Olaf, "it ban Thursday.

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?

English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

I didn't feel anything [frustraiting]. I just kept working 110 or 120 nights a year.

Any press is good press.