I want people to hear the presence of God in the music.
A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.
If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!
What I have done cannot be taken from me.
Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.
Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.
Vehemence without feeling is but rant.
Nothing in this book is true.
In modern war. . . you will die like a dog for no good reason.
That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid. Ever. Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it. . . and my heart is going to cave in.