“Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.”

“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”

“To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”

“Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?”

“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.”

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”

“It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.”