"One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with."

"What moulting is to birds, the time when they change their feathers, that's adversity or misfortune, hard times, for us human beings. Instead of giving way to despair, I took the way of active melanch…"

"I want to be a man of action."

"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."

"There are two ways of looking at a thing: one way is to see it as an ugly, dull, miserable, uninteresting thing, another way is to see it as a beautiful, interesting, marvelous, and inspiring thing."