"The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly."

"For a man who is sensitive to nature, happiness consists in expressing nature. How infinitely happy, then, is the man…"

"In the midst of the activities that distract me [shooting partridges in the woods], when I remember a few lines of po…"

"..The movement and the rustle of the branches [in the forest, while losing his attention for chasing] delights me. Th…"

"I am thinking of painting for the coming Salon a picture [probably the large and unfinished painting 'Botzaris' by De…"

"I must try to live austerely, as Plato did.. .I need to live a more solitary life.. .Valuable ideas beyond number mis…"

"I have seen here [in London] a play on Faust, the most diabolic thing imaginable. The Mephistopheles is a masterpiece…"

"I am not doing very much as yet. I am put out by this manner of the Salon. They will end by persuading me that I have…"

"Well! A general invasion: Hamlet rears his hideous head, Othello is preparing his dagger, that essentially murderous …"

"Of late, men seem to have been possessed by an incomprehensible impulse to strip themselves of everything with which …"