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

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.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

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.

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