Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad

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.

With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)...

Sometimes you must behave like a tunnel! If a formidable mountain is on your way, thrust through it!

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

Try being my size and going into a public restroom.

I'm the most loyal player money can buy.

Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

It's hard to think that you're a political consultant - not many people are going to get a crack at a thing like this.