Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

Before you can do something, you must first be something.