I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.

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.

The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes.

Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?

There are no such things as secrets only truths that have yet to be revealed.

Aim at nothing and you'll succeed.

There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.

There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific