Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.