My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

God made me and broke the mold.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.