Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.

Black is the queen of colours.

I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass