When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.
“Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”
“If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doingit?”
“What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.”
“I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.”
“I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.”
“To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.”
“One spares old people just as one spares children.”
“Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.”