When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.

A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.

Writing is busy idleness.