"Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold."

"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."

"There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works, and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is, one must be half a tradesman…"

"My misfortune is double because I am misunderstood."

"It is not the business of the artist to be happy."