Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

The color of truth is gray.

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

There is no work of art that is without short cuts.