I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.

Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?