It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more imp…

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse…

It's nerve and brass, audace and disrespect, and leaping-before-you-look and what-the-hellism, that must be developed.

Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-an…