One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
When I start thinking, all is lost.
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
If I think, everything is lost.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.