Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning to produce in all ways, to battle as much as possible against time that drags us along, and the distractions that throw a veil over our soul.

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.