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.

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 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.

I'd paralyze anyone who wanted to hurt me.

Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization.

Let us compete with ourselves, not with others.

It’s just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they’d go insane in a world too different from the one they knew.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Life really is a series of contrasts.

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

Sin is essentially a departure from God.

I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.