The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

And then what's the whole point if you're harsh to those who love you and soft to those who don't care...

Death, one way or another, would breathe life into a new order of balance today.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but it didn't work for the rabbit!

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

I'd discovered you never know yourself until you're tested and that you don't even know you're being tested until afterwards, and that in fact there isn't anyone giving the test except yourself.

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

And he didn't really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere, because you really have to go somewhere, don't you?

The angels would become incarnate if they could, so that they might come to earth to imitate the example and virtues of the Son of God!