I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

I wish they would take me as I am.

There is peace even in the storm

Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.