It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.