The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

Nearly everyone wants at least one outstanding meal a day.

Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

If you pay sufficient attention, everything in life is magnificent, everything is a doorway to the Divine.

The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.

For what other reason would you have me save you? Because I like you? Better to be useful than liked.

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

Donald Trump does what everybody who voted for him wishes would happen every time the left pipes up.