Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin quotes:

One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.

Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions.

You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass.

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.