Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.
How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles!
The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools.
I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have permitted myself to remain there. My honors are misunderstanding, persecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.
No man, and least of all myself, could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him.