Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

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.

People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic.

I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect.

The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.

Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass.

Public 'career feminists' have been more concerned with getting more women into 'boardrooms,' when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.

You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.

Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.

Strengthen in us, O God, the work You have begun in us.

I love Friends, so I try to bring Jennifer Aniston's mannerisms to my show.