“One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.”

“That someday there will be no them and us. There will be no colour and no differences between us. There will be only one human family working together.”

“That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.”

“A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.”

“One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings.”

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

“An uneducated population may be degraded; a population educated, but not in righteousness, will be ungovernable. The one may be slaves, the other must be tyrants.”

“Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?”

“I want to reach the state of condensation of sensations which constitutes a picture. Perhaps I might be satisfied momentarily with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind..”

“One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.”