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.

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.