We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)
From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
The landscapist lives in silence.
Cities are the sinks of the human race.