I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.

Bad luck was a fact of life and one dealt with it or not.Good luck, on the other hand, was something one created.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

We are all today being monitored in advance and in criminal suspicion. And I think that's terrifying, and deeply illiberal as concept. And that's something that we should reject.

Living is the purpose of life, And meaning can be found therein. I finds thou. Thou becomes it. And it begins again.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.

Would I be healed now if you gave me your blood, Nikolai?” “Are you asking me for it?” “If I were, would you give it to me?