If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.