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.
The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
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!"