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

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.

I must have flowers, always, and always.

Light is the most important person in the picture.

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

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.

I shall be so brief that I have already finished.

It is either easy or impossible.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.