Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved

If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the