Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.

Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

Every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Then you notice the cherry blossoms, and you see that nature is unaffected by all this. Poplar trees, the red butterflies, the fragile beauty of flowers, the sun-you see how nature is indifferent to it all.