I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

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.

Nothing in this universe is complex to understand than the universe itself. Everything else is as frugal as a cold wave.

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.

Notting Forest are having a bad run, they've lost six matches in a row now without winning

find your eternity in each moment

Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift . . . that's nausea.

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

My favourite sport is cheerleading!

They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.