I've been 40 years discovering that the Queen of all colours is black.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

It’s my life and I’m not afraid to LIVE it! I would rather experience the ups and downs of a life I have chosen, than to suffer the regret of a life I have settled for.

Find Meaning, Find Yourself.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy.

It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.

Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.

I wanted him to hold me, to take care of me. To make the pain dissolve away. I know that this was part of what had ruined everything but I wanted it once more anyway.

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince.

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

I'd like to meet you In a timeless placeless place Somewhere out of context And beyond all consequences.