When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

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.

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.

I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.

Explore the timeless wonders of life.

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

The mind is not limited to the thoughts and imagination, but your mind is part of the cosmos of the universe. Your mind is whole awareness field.

Low-grade pain can be so rooted in your being that the pain begins to look like you, and you begin to look like the pain — it becomes your identity.

Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.

I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

Reform is not a one-night stand.

Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.