Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.

My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.

If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Beginner!