“Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.”

“He accorded his art the highest respect, that of never taking it for granted. Always, as long as he lived, he tried to learn more, in order to serve it better.”

“no matter how great you pretend to be, It is not as great as you truly are”

“he's always walking about with a long faceil est triste comme un jour sans pain”

“But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.”

“It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.”

“All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.”