Art Is A Jealous Thing; It Requires

With Few Words I Shall Make Thee Understand My Soul.

Beauty Is The Purgation Of Superfluities.

After Four Tortured Years, More Than 400 Over Life-sized Figures, I Felt As Old And As Weary As Jeremiah. I Was Only 37, Yet Friends Did Not Recognize The Old Man I Had Become.

Poets And Painters Have The Power To Dare, I Mean To Dare To Do Whatever They May Approve Of.

Let It Be Enough For You To Have Bread And Live Virtuously And Poorly Like Christ, As I Do Here. I Live Meanly And Don't Bother About Life Or Honor ... And I Live With The Greatest Toil And A Thousand Worries. It Is Now About 15 Years Since I Had A Happy Hour.