I'm very happy, very delighted. I'm setting to like a fighting cockerel, for I'm surrounded here by all that I love.

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 main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

She asks me how my heart is, and I say, 'beating.'That's never the answer you want, and I am sorry about that.

To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.

I can sing and dance. I can smile - a lot.

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

Maybe that's why people take pictures of themselves, to avoid being described.

Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

Men and women existed before creeds; love is the only religion.

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.