"I will show them that I am not to be trifled with."

"I wish you health, and hope that you will soon be able to do something for art, so that I may be able to see you again. Farewell, I wish you well."

"It is a fact that I have always placed my personal freedom before everything else."

"Ah, it seemed to me impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce."

"I shall live in my work."