I must have flowers, always, and always.

My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

What I need most of all is colour, always, always.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

Everything changes, even stone.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

The real subject of every painting is light.

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

Light is the most important person in the picture.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.

Forever will be you and me.

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future

Let my enemies devour each other.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.