“As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.”
“What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.”
“No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.”
“I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.”
“Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.”