The landscapist lives in silence.

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

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 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.

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!"

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.

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