I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book
My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools. . . I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
What will an angel say that the devil wants to know?
Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.
Good reasons must of force give place to better.
Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.