It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Art is but imitation of nature.

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

There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.

I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.