I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was 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.

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.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

As universities have turned into businesses, so students have turned into consumers.

To be comforted by God is a promise that few of us ever receive, because we are consumed with controlling our situations to avoid being vulnerable.

Whose the cap fit, let them where it.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

Love is strong as the Death; jealousies are as cruel as the tomb.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.