To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.
Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.
I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!.
Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.
Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.
Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work.