"There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more."

"Why should beauty be suspect?"

"Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman."

"I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it."

"-last words about painting, age 78... I think I'm beginning to learn something about it."

"We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators."

"You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat."

"The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly."

"Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character."

"It's with my brush that I make love."

"One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity."

"White does not exist in nature."

"Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art."

"There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There isonly a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

"You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well."

"Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others."

"If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds."

"A transcendent being can be any miracle."

"A am realistic -- I expect miracles."

"There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me."

"Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility."

"Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist."

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

"You can never get enough of what you don't want."

"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life."

"When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out - because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside."

"You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason."

"The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way."

"Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored."

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy."

"Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine."

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind."

"You don't talk about paintings, you look at them."

"People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance."

"The more they measure, the more they realize how much the Greeks departed from regular and banal lines in order to produce their effect."

"I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it."

"About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw."

"I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child."

"Everybody has their reasons."

"And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums."

"You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time."

"You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous."

"If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous."

"An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature."

"I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right."

"Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service."

"I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw."

"There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable."

"Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble; one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing."

"I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation."