Occupation: Artist Birth: June 7, 1848 Death: May 8, 1903
No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality ….
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary..
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue..
Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable..
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 ….
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….
Civilization is what makes you sick..
Art = a mad search for individualism..
The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished..
The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain..
In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind..
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction..
In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music..
It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own..
A meter of green is greener than a centimeter..
I am entering into the truth, into nature..
A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!.
I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant..
I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world.
I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering..
The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning..