The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles
Light is the most important person in the picture.
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends - in this case, the highest good.
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
'What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied.