If one has such an encounter it is to be expected it will bring him into conflict, especially conflict with himself, because one sometimes literally does not know what to do or what not to do. But is this struggle and even the mistakes one may make, not better, and do they not develop us more than if we keep systematically away from emotions?

Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.

The sadness will last forever.

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

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

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

You have to first experience what you want to express