My life has been nothing but a failure.

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.

Everything can be heard in the garden of a quiet mind.

Honesty whispers, "Don't get pricked by the thorns of lie.

If I were to be honest, I'm probably fifty percent bagel. Okay, fine, sixty percent.

Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

You are the home I point to that lives in my chest.

For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.

We will ask two central questions throughout this course: 1. What difference does gender make? 2. For which women does it make a difference? Which women?

My soul may be returned to the heavens but my heart will remain with you for all eternity.