A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody..

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself..

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one..

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting..

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious..

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only..

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail..

When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't ….

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child..

What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an….

Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all po….

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm..

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?.

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals..

Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible..

What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me,….

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy..

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters..

I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter….

If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?.

What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a paint….