The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.