My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.
The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.
Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
No man, and least of all myself, could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him.
How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles!
I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental unobtrusive and to musicians I think it emphasized the expression of the face and pose of the figure.