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.

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

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

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

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.

It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

Your feet may be small, but travel much. Your hands may be little, but conquer much. Your eyes may be tiny, but perceive much. Your ears may be modest, but heed much.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.

I don't really think in career terms.

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

O woman shapely as a swan.

No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.

I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The melancholy of this music touched me so deeply that it brought me to tears.