Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

In art, the best is good enough.

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.