I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.
Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.