Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.