I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

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.

She stretched beneath him, bare and aching, held captive by an entirely new form of magic, one she'd thought existed only in books and movies.

Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.

Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.

You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.

Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.

Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

I never get my creativity flowing. I'm a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don't flow, I don't eat.

Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.

I can't say I agree with something that takes the focus away from me.