An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love.