“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.”
“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”
“I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately (forms of) expression... for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my (art) against such contamination.”
“Even extreme grief may ultimately ventitself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy”
“A sulking sister is better than a scolding sister.”
“He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.”