They who see only what they wish to see in those around them are very fortunate.
I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!.
Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.
... I will never love, for I should never be loved as I desire to be loved.
Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.
Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.