Speech Of Yourself Ought To Be Seldom

A Picture Should Be A Re-creation Of An Event Rather Than An Illustration Of An Object; But There Is No Tension In The Picture Unless There Is A Struggle With The Object.

Friends Are Thieves Of Time.

They That Reverence To Much Old Times Are But A Scorn To The New.

Some Artists Leave Remarkable Things Which, A 100 Years Later, Don't Work At All. I Have Left My Mark; My Work Is Hung In Museums, But Maybe One Day The Tate Gallery Or The Other Museums Will Banish Me To The Cellar... You Never Know.

Prosperity Is Not Without Many Fears And Distastes; Adversity Not Without Many Comforts And Hopes.