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"Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all."

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

"In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason."

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

"Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul."

"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."

"Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is."

"You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover."

"A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light."

"I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me."

"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence."

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."

"Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science."

"It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise."

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

"Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight."

"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun."

"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art."

"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."

"Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!"

"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend."

"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition."

"The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist."

"The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart."

"The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart."