It's with my brush that I make love.

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.

When an influencing idea comes to life, people cannot exactly predict all its inevitable consequences.

Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross back over - the good ones and the bad. And they get rid a mice.

My brother had the courage to come out in 1978, when equality was still a distant dream.

But what can you say in a letter?

It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances.

An old Apache storyteller reminds us

You can't fly unless you let yourself fall

The best part about getting knocked down is standing back up knowing what you didn't before.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself?