When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.

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.

Are women beautiful or aren't we?

It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

When we quit playing Hokey Pokey with God and keep our whole self in, His blessings pursue us!

Hair of the dog and to keep me company I made a drink.

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

So are we still trying to end racial politics or are there just too many advantages to some political parties for that?

I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.

Creativity means believing you have greatness.