With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

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.

The glory of the carpenter is the tables and chairs he manufactures

Giving saves lives. Especially the giver’s.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

prophecies do not alter fate, only confirm it.

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.

Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel.

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.