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- I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
- What I need most of all is color, always, always.
- The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the…
- One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them…
- All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
- The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.
- I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same...
- Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while,…
- I'm very happy, very delighted. I'm setting to like a fighting cockerel, for I'm surrounded here by all that I love.
- I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be…
- Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John…
- When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as…
- I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of…
- Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my…
- I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in…
- One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat]…
- When I work I forget all the rest.
- Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time,…
- To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle