Guilty, Your Honor, but only of minor transgressions. My motto is, ‘Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness keep you from your books.
The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.
There seemed to be that same fierce quest after truth, the same unafraid penetration, the same feeling that character is beauty, no matter how sordid it may appear.
They had painted in a grand rush to keep intact the purity of their first impression, the mood in which the motif had been conceived.
Alla guerra di amor vince chi fugge.
When I compare myself to the other fellows there is something stiff and awkward about me; I look as if I had been in prison for ten years.
Art destroys the life.
The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.
The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
Man’s spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food...
Life’s not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
There’s no love without pain.
Normal people do not create art.