If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

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.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.