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

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.

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.

How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.

It is because of pain that you value pleasure, sorrow that you value joy, despair that you value hope, war that you value peace, and hate that you value love.

The greater evil who is in-When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the painOr he who pays for the sin?

CNN said that after the war, there is a plan to divide Iraq into three parts: regular, premium and unleaded.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

It's very powerful if you can home in on, and really trust, intuition and its strength. Most men have shunned that in so many ways that they end up squaring off the circle of life.

What are you doing here?" she asked. "You forgot something when you left Halstead Hall," he said hoarsely. "What?" Her heart lept into her throat as he strode purposefully toward her. "Me.

Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!

I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.

He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world.

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.