Go on working, freely and furiously, you will make progress and sooner or later your worth will be recognised, if you have any.

A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.