The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.