1. My art should benefit poor people.

2. What supports me in adversity is morality. What keeps me from losing my mind is morality besides art.

3. I want to grab fate by the throat. It wants to make me surrender, which is absolutely impossible. Life is so beautiful, live it forever!

4. Famous artists are constrained by fame, so their earliest works are often the best.

5. My motto is always: never stop writing; if I sometimes make the God of Art doze off, it is just to make him more excited when he wakes up.

6. Those who stand out and become famous rely on virtue, and this is also my strength.

7. Ugliness walks through the path of desire, tempting many people to follow it. Virtue pursues a precipitous path that is less attractive to humans.

8. All disasters bring some good.

9. Teach your children "virtue": it is virtue, not money, that makes people happy. This is my experience. What supports me in adversity is morality, and what keeps me from losing my mind is morality besides art.

10. Only pain can lead to joy.

11. I would like to prove that anyone who behaves kindly and noblely will be able to withstand adversity.

12. My art should only benefit poor people. Ah, what a happy moment! How happy I will be when I can come close to this!

13. Pain can destroy people, and the people who suffer can also destroy pain. Creation requires suffering, and suffering is a gift from God. One of the great qualities of outstanding people is their perseverance in the face of adverse and difficult encounters.

14. His kingdom is not in this world. As he wrote to Fran?ois de Brunwick: “My kingdom is in the sky.

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