The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.