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

Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

I felt before I thought

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.

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

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.