The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and th….

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

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us..

The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the mo….

Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers ….

Civilization is what makes you sick..

Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature..

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated..

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see ….

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model..

Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night..

I am entering into the truth, into nature..

Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in ….

Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene..

Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable..

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will..

I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting fo….

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..

I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorr….

A meter of green is greener than a centimeter..

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