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Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.

The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more in a print.

The universe was born restless and has never since been still.

Why did you paint a couch in the middle of the jungle?"
Rousseau: "Because one has a right to paint one's dreams.

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.

Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.

Cities are the sinks of the human race.

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

Luxury ... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

The landscapist lives in silence.

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

I felt before I thought

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.

It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.