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.
It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.
The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.
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.
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!"