I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers

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.

Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.

Love hides in all sorts of places, in the most sorrowful corner of your heart, in the darkest and most hopeless situation

Bloodlust – the disease that makes us the monsters we are known to be

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

When I write for myself, I just get to be myself.

The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.

What you learn after you are 40 is that it is just about plugging up holes in the boat. You just hope you have enough corks to plug enough of the holes.

We are all connected, and we are all One.

What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?

and where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine