What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.

Painting demands an intelligent model.

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.