Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

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

Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created.

Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.

A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God - to create like our Divine Master.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.