Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

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.

Send message to the future by writing it today!

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future

My parents instilled in me the value of learning and encouraged me to succeed in school.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).

Time is given us to use in view of eternity.

Every character I do is something special to me. Every time you score with a great character relationship in a movie, it becomes your baby.

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

All education must be self-education.