Nothing can be accomplished without love.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture that light which has never left him, if people knew all that, they would also realize that this happiness, this light, this dispassionate wisdom which seems to be mine, are sometimes well-deserved, given the severity of my trials.

It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.