In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.
Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.