Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted" at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.

Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it.

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.