Knowing how to paint and to use one’s colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Thomas Couturewas a French history painter and teacher. He taught such later luminaries of the art world as Edouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, John Ward Dunsmore, Karel Javurek, William Morris Hunt, and Joseph-Noel Sylvestre.