The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.

When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.

Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.

Breathe in the small things

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.