All Quotes

“Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity. Moving Quotes from Chinua Achebe”

“I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself. Moving Quotes from Chinua Achebe”

“The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace. Moving Quotes from Chinua Achebe”

“We should never take pleasure in causing pain to others, even to those who have wronged us, but rather strive to do good to all.”

“On Duties (De Officiis) 1.33”

“As for me, I cease not to advocate peace. It may be on unjust terms, but even so it is more expedient than the justest of civil wars.”

“They are such fools that they seem to expect that, though the Republic is lost, their fish”

“since our leading men think themselves in a seventh heaven, if there are bearded mullets in their fish”

“Indeed rhetoricians are permitted to lie about historical matters so they can speak more subtly.”

“Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit. Almost no one dances sober, unless he is insane. Pro Murena”

“Nothing is more to be esteemed than being and appearing grateful. For this one virtue is not only the greatest, but is also the parent of all the other virtues.”

“A grateful mind is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the other virtues. As quoted in Great Thoughts from Latin Authors (1884), by Craufurd Tait Ramage, p. 32”

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. As quoted in Wisconsin Congregational Church Life , Vol. 69”

“Bajo el fragor de las armas, las leyes no se pueden escuchar”

“De hombres es equivocarse; de locos persistir en el error”

“Discutir fortalece la agudeza».”

“El buen ciudadano es aquel que no puede tolerar en su patria un poder que pretenda hacerse superior a las leyes”

“El cultivo de la memoria es tan necesario como el alimento para el cuerpo”

“I am surrounded by a small group of young landscapists who will be very happy get to know you. Besides, they are real painters... I find myself very well fixed here. I am drawing figures at hard. And at the Academy , there are only landscapists. They begin to perceive that it's a good thing. Quote of Monet, 1859 in a letter to his mentor Eugène Boudin ; as cited in: John Rewald (1961) The History of Impressionism”

“Among Troyon 's paintings there are two huge ones; Return to the Farm is marvelous with its beautiful stormy sky. There is much windy motion in the clouds, and the cows and dogs are very good. In Going to the Market you see the mist at sunrise. It's superb and, most of all, very luminous. The wide space in View from Surennes is amazing. You feel you are really in the countryside. 1859 letter to Eugène Boudin , June 3, 1859; as cited in Rodolphe Rapetti (1990) Monet, p. 11”

“Monet wrote Boudin this letter just after he visited the 1859 Salon .”

“'..learn to draw: that's where most of you [Troyon's pupils] are falling down today.. ..draw with all your might; you can never learn too much. However, don’t neglect painting, go to the country from time to time and make studies and above all develop them..' [Monet is quoting in his letter Troyon , a friend of Boudin in Paris] in a letter to Eugène Boudin , 1859; as quoted in Discovering Art,”

“By way of news, I can tell you that Couture , that bad”

“It is beautiful here [in Etretat , Normandy], my friend; every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all”

“It seems to me, when I see nature, that I see it ready made, completely written”

“There at the moment in Honfleur .. . Boudin and Jongkind are here; we get on marvelously. There's lots to be learned and nature begins to grow beautiful.. .I shall tell you I'm sending a flower picture to the exhibition at Rouen; there are very beautiful flowers at present. in a letter to Frédéric Bazille ; as cited in: Edward B. Henning, Cleveland Museum of Art. Creativity in art and science, 1860”

“One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I have felt. The further I get, the more I regret how little I know, that's what hinders me the most.. .I don't think I will spend much time in Paris now, a month at the very most, each year. in a letter to Frédéric Bazille ; as quoted in: K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 31.”

“In Paris one is too preoccupied by what one sees and what one hears, however strong one is; what I am doing here has, I think, the merit of not resembling anyone, because it is simply the expression of what I myself have experienced. in a letter to Frédéric Bazille from Etretat , December 1868; as cited in: Mary Tompkins Lewis (2007) Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post”

“My life has been nothing but a failure.”

“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”