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.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

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

One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

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