I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

I must have flowers, always, and always.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

Light is the most important person in the picture.

Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

If you are not aware of your destination, you are likely to become used by someone in accordance with his purpose and to work for a person who knows his plans and goals

In deep pain, the sacred voice must speak to survive.

What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

My philosophy has always been to help women and men feel comfortable and confident through the clothes they wear.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.