I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.

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.

There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!

If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today?

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

Don’t deprive yourself of the exciting journey your life can be when you relinquish the need to have goals and a blueprint.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.