It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

I must have flowers, always, and always.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

Light is the most important person in the picture.

Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Success is ...embracing one's failure

I’d rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end…

I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world.

Lonely is the night when you find yourself alone.

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters.

I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.

It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.