The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

The vain being is the really solitary being.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.