Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

I always start a painting with the sky.

In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names…

It will be a very long time before I trust you ever, ever - OK, I trust you again.

[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.

All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.

My worst quality is impatience.

I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.

Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes.

It is essential to view learning as a total community responsibility.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.