God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.
The landscapist lives in silence.
It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.