Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

whatever beauty she thought she might have possessed she realized had only been through her husband's assessment of her

Faithful are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.

We live alone, we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.

I wanted to better inform the world.