“I don’t work from nature, I work like nature.”

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

We don’t grow older we grow riper.

Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

Everything you can imagine is real.

The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.

Joy all creatures drink At nature’s bosoms.

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,–the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.