When I work I forget all the rest.

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.

I don't believe that aliens exist, but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief.

The writer and his reader are both complicit in the act of storytelling. The writer must first leave a part of his soul on the page, like a contagion, which the reader then catches.

A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.

Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.

To act is easy; to think is hard.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

Faith is not only in the heart; it should be put into words.

If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.

We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.