Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

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.

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

I love the sound of people thinking.

A couple of words is all it'll take to make everything in my life Before and After.

The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?

I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension.

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

The main idea is to win.

The Past, the Future, O dear, is from you; you should regard both these as one.

My love is like a tire iron.

Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.