I felt before I thought

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!"

The landscapist lives in silence.

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)

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

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.