Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

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.

Jerusalem is holy to three religions. You have to respect that.

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.

The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.

I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself.

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.

My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.

Cool URIs don't change

There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.