The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
We must have a passion in life.
The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.
My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.