When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.

The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

We have books and films where mice and hobbits and dwarves and children can save the world, and that's perfectly acceptable. But a 120lb woman save the galaxy? YOU GO TOO FAR, SIR.

Words. Ever since chisel was taken to slate, it has been accepted that words can and do change the world.

I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best.

Mother Nature does not do bailouts.

I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.

Because I'm thinking in a broader way, I feel like I am able to make better decisions.

Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind?