You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains that chief of pleasures, the feeling of being pleased with oneself. A man gets an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge of having done good work and of having made the best use of his day, and when I am in this state I find that I thoroughly enjoy my rest and even the mildest forms of recreation.

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.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

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

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

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.