There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite..

Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little….

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything..

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's m….

I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very simple art and to be able t….

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own..

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme..

If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a sco….

In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who ….

Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of..

Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?.

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets..

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind..

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves..

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone..

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts..

In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists.

The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain..

In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make som….

for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like this or like that, it was b….

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block..