There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

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.

If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

... life is too short to do the whole.