We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

The universe was born restless and has never since been still.

I felt before I thought

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.

It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.

Cities are the sinks of the human race.

The landscapist lives in silence.

The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more in a print.

The creature may not haste above the maker

You don't need to deteriorate with advancing age.

I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.

A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.

An "always been" does not mean I must choose "what must be."

Every day I push myself to redefine the limits of our sport

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.