Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
It is either easy or impossible.
I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.
There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.