The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.

I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

To establish God’s kingdom is to understand its prototype

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.

If I'm the nominee, I will pledge I will not run as an independent. I want to win as the Republican. I want to run as the Republican nominee.

Jealous?...Of what? I don't want a foul scar right across my head, thanks. I don't think getting your head cut open makes you that special, myself.

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

I rarely lose my temper anymore.

Children's stories force logic upon the gruesome facts of our lives. They mirror our troubles and submit them to a chain of causality.

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.