I am beginning to have more powerful enemies and more envious ones, too.

With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth.

I am always so envious of people who do whatever they want.

In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.

I identify myself as what I am. I'm half Jewish, like Proust. I have no other way to put it.

I am too childlike to be immature.