The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.

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.

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

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.

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.

The extravagant cost of staying is watching others leave.-Commitment Defined

Discover the World give us more Education to Ourselves.

Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.

I’m from New Jersey. I was born in toxic sludge.

The quality of events surrounding you in any given moment in time may be reflecting specific beliefs that you hold in that moment of time.

The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so that those thoughts become reality in this wonderful and abundant world.

I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.

I'm definitely never going to be a biker. I'm scared of cars so the idea of riding a motorcycle is just never going to be something that I'm into.

It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun.

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.