It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.