It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.

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.

A family is a group of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

Life, he knew, had meaning and was fully possessed only as it was remembered and reshaped.

Do not allow the negative of the past to mask your sight.

Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.

Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me.

Truthfully, I love all animals.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates.