Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.

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.

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

It doesn't matter what your name is!

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war.

The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.

Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.

Sanity? Sorry, I don't ever remember having something like that before.

Essentially 'Flight' is just an adventure of multiple realities.