From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.
Cities are the sinks of the human race.
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!"
I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.