I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about.

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.

Worldly life (sansar) means to get tired and to rest.

I have already made up my mind, don't confuse me with facts.

The choices she's made have left her without choice.

Miroku: Kagome, are you worrying about me?Kagome: I guess so.Miroku: In that case, I have a favor to ask of you: please bear my child.

An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.

Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.