| First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. |
| A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. |
| As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them. |
| To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. |
| The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. |
| Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy. |
| My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. |
| I don't think there's anybody in this world who should be required to make you feel good about yourself. Be happy on your own. |
| Art is the proper task of life. |
| When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too. |
