top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
Author Name
Personal Development
"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I teach that all men are mad."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The man is either mad, or he is making verses."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
Author Name
Personal Development
"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men."
Man
"This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution."
Art
"To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction."
Being
"The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas."
Life
"Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light."
Death
"I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell."
Life
"I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell."
Fear
"Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes."
People
"I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter."
Friendship
"No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love."
Love
bottom of page