A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.
Always, at the back of your soul, there is something that says to you, 'Mortal, drawn from eternal life for a short time, think how precious these moments are.'
Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.
Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror?
I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.
If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.
Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing.
Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.
Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul. Seek solitude.
One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.
One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.
Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.
The secret of not having worries... is to have ideas.
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything.
To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.
What I have done cannot be taken from me.
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
When a thing bores you, do not do it.
You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains that chief of pleasures, the feeling of being pleased with oneself.
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