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

The older I become the more I realize of that I have to work very hard to reproduce what I search: the instantaneous. The influence of the atmosphere on the things and the light scattered throughout.

I must have flowers, always, and always.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.

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