No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.

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.

Human is a suffered mind but an enlightened soul.

Pinecones. Little works of art. Prickly. Reminders of fall. Similar to pineapples. A sign of welcome.

Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second.

You know, a lot of girls go out with me just to further their careers...damn anthropologists.

Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition.

The blood, the fountain whence the spirits flow The generous stream that waters every part, And motion, vigor, and warm life conveys To every particle that moves or lives.

The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

I wish that I am a star, shining for every TripleS in every corner of the earth.

I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.