I am a pupil of Pissarro.

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Regret is the strongest anchor that latches on to the ground, and you carry it within you, it is a feeling quite unlike others for it is despair mingled with hope.

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes.

One must speak in such a way that although someone else, or many others, or an infinite number of people have said it before, it seems as though you said it first.

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

Everyone thinks softball is a girl's game. But you only think that until you get hit with it on a line drive.

Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

The more success I have with track and field the bigger my brand is. So I would say I'm more of a brand now, trying to build for the future.