I've spent my life making blunders.

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.

Is it all just a psychotic dream? What is life?

I arose a mother in Israel.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

Rest as soon as there is pain.

Unfortunately, beer was only a short-term answer. And head transplants had yet to be approved by the FDA.

Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.

Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.

Happiness comes from living the way the Lord wants you to live.