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

The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning to produce in all ways, to battle as much as possible against time that drags us along, and the distractions that throw a veil over our soul.

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

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

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

The source of genius is imagination alone.

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