Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.