No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

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.

A woman’s belly is the garden of life. Her mind is the gateway to meaning. Her heart is the source of love. And her eyes are the light by which the whole world sees beauty.

Don't think about your past, enjoy your present. And do your best. Reduce immosion, otherwise it will give you painful moments.

The better the wife, the happier the man.The happier the man, the happier the wife.

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.

Mortals, while through the world you go, Hope may succor and faith befriend, Yet happy your hearts if you can but know, Love awaits at the journey's end!

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

Genetically modified foods are really just better crops. They're more nutritious. They're more resistant to drought, pests, and that sort of thing.

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.

...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.