It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

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.

Never underestimate the power of a woman!

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher as equally false and by the magistrate as equally useful.

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

Twelve million students take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced. Now, if 5 percent opt out, that creates - that triggers some restrictions, and 5 percent of 12 million is only 600,000.

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

Everybody should be able to choose according to his own values and history, within a European civilization that we all belong to.

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.

When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.