"The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart."
"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is."
"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
"A flower blossoms for its own joy."
"Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire."
"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise"