Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind.

All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.