To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Where there is no heart there is no art.
It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.
Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.
The right to happiness is fundamental.