It is good to love many things

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

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.