Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.

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.

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

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.

It's late at night when the memory comes for me, like it always seems to when the relief of sleep seems ready to draw me under.

I thank God every day for bringing you into my life. I know I don't deserve you, but I'm a better man because of you.

I haven't devoured a soul in...What month is this? March?

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

I don't think people know what hygienist means.

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

We used to have our own plane with the band's name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local airport. There's none of this checking in stuff; you just get on the plane.

People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.