It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.

The landscapist lives in silence.

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!"

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

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

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