For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

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.

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

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

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