Everything changes, even stone.

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.

I had a renewal of mind, when I begin to read.

Jealousy shows weakness and we must be strong to except ourselves for who we truly are.

...but sovereign borders will mean Water haves and have-nots.

Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.

There is definitely a sense of pride to it - it's more precious when you cook something up from the beginning and you see it all the way to the end, and you get a little bit more of a say.

Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?

What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand.

Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.