Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

One should always be in love.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.