Personality is the gland of creativity.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools. . . I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger. , Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte. ]
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
Acting is a bit like tennis in that you can't really do it on your own.