I insist upon 'doing it alone'... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

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.

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Give money to universities — that would be asking for trouble. All those places do is turn out more Communists.

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.

I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.

If trusting in Christ is the only way to be saved one has to wonder about infants, small children, and those who are child-like who are incapable of exercising faith in Christ.

I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'