Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.

The best piece of life's magnificence is your slice of internal peace.

You are so beautiful, like water droplet.When I'm looking on water, inside the glass, I see nothing unusual, but when I look on water droplet, I see, how beautiful She is.

Either you were the best of the best or you were nothing, and somehow that didn't seem right.

Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable faith means believing the unbelievable and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.

My view is not just to find young talents, it's to support them too.

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

It's all about makeup.

You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that too much.

Love is about letting go of the fears that stand in front of our hearts.

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