This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

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

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.