A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.

No, mes amis, impressionism is not charlatanry, nor a formula, nor a school. I should say rather it is the bold resolve to throw all those things overboard.

All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired.

I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

Go to nature with no parti pris. You should not know what your picture is to look like until it is done. Just see the picture that is coming.

If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid.

I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.

As far as outdoor work is concerned, a studio is only a garage; a place in which to store pictures and repair them, never a place in which to paint them.

The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.

With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

I love doing the conventions and being an ambassador for 'Star Wars'.

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.

It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.

You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children.

Your life, your soul, your world. They cannot kill it. Look at me, I’ve died but I opened my eyes again.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.