"No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination."
"One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."