You Must Always Work.

A Mediocre Man Copying Nature Will Never Produce A Work Of Art, Because He Really Looks Without Seeing, And Though He May Have Noted Each Detail Minutely, The Result Will Be Flat And Without Character... The Artist On The Contrary, Sees; That Is To Say, His Eye, Grafted On His Heart, Reads Deeply Into The Bosom Of Nature.

There Should Be No Argument In Regard To Morality In Art. There Is No Morality In Nature.

The Delicate Droop Of The Petals Standing Out In Relief, Is Like The Eyelid Of A Child.

How Painful It Is To Find That My Figure Can Be Of No Help To My Future... How Painful To See It Rejected On Account Of A Slanderous Suspicion!

The Realities Of Nature Surpass Our Most Ambitious Dreams.