I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

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.

Trust nature and make peace with something in your life.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

Everybody has something wrong with them.

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

Pretend I asked, now answer the question.

In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.

Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term

The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.