The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.

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.

Христовият мир е свобода от греха, а мирът на света е свобода на греха...

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

Let it be that your life becomes the brightest light that enlightens the whole world.

I was going to write a sharp witty email full of devastating one-liners but I suspect you want something nicer than that

You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.

We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous.

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

You're the only one who can decide what's best for you.

I'm hyped up when I'm working. Some people eat when they're hyped up and some people don't. I'm the 'don't.