Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism... →
Balthus
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Honore de Balzac
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of... →
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.