Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Patience is eternal genius