Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!

I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

I think that indicates why men tend to invest more wealth. If he loses some, there's more coming in. Whereas for women, it's like "Ugh, I gotta keep this."

Don't let anything without a heart beat you.

Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.

Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.