True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.
One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.
I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass
The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.