I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and colours.

Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones.