“My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.”

“The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.”

“Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.”

“No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.”

“If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.”

“Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.”

“You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.”

“When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people.”

“Our spirit knows our purpose, let these en-grained impressions shape our perceptions of who we think we are today.”

“And these thingsthat keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient,they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue.They want us to change them completely, in our invisible h...”

“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.”

“God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.”

“Which one is the truth, sir?Which period do you mean, son?”

“In order to understand the universal perspective,first you have to know more than a version of truth.”

“Which one is the truth, sir?Which period do you mean, son?”