Color is my daylong 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.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.”-Caroline to Ursual.

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

The BEST revenge is to be fabulous.

You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rach

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

When you do something well, this is the best job in the world.

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

His smile was like lightning in the darkness, blinding and beautiful and mysterious, and I wanted him so badly it was physically painful.