I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

The universe was born restless and has never since been still.

I felt before I thought

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.

It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

Cities are the sinks of the human race.

The landscapist lives in silence.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

When we focus on others, our world expands.

It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys.

Adversity is the mother of progress.

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.