I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that!
I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.
Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.