I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

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

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

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.

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

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