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.

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

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.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

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

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

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.