But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.

Talent is a long patience.

Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Talent is long patience.

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art.