Only the heart without a stain knows ease.

What matters in art is not thinking but making.

A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.