White does not exist in nature.

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.

One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.

How can we afford to live in the world in which one has to die [one day]? We are eternal.

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

The thing that makes me want to make pictures now is just looking without many prejudices. The stuff right under your eyes is the most wonderful universe - if you care to look with young eyes.

I am receptive to the inflow and outpouring of the universe.

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

Don't be sad about the goodbyes! Because in many farewells, better unions are hidden!

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.