I'll start with small things.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.