I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste.

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.

Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.

Revenge is a feast for thegods!

But dying people don't need to be reminded that they're dying

I've always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.

Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?

If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living

The new earth will complete God's program. It will be what God intended for Adam and Eve in Eden.

Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

One of the amazing things about pop is that it's there to make people feel confident and empowered.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs