When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

Among the mutations that have affected the knowledge of things ... only one, which began a century and a half ago ... has allowed the figure of man to appear.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.

It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.

Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of.

The older I get, the more I become an apple pie, sparkling cider kind of guy.

Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.

Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would.