Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.

A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

I will not live without love.

One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.

There is no such thing as an ugly woman.