if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.
The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.
I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.
But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.
The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures.
The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures, only, in the case of man, it is vice or property that makes him ugly. He is responsible for his own decadence, while the horse is only a slave.