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

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned….

Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow..

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….

I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer..

Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I exp….

A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it..

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning..

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 ….

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagina….

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist..

In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music..

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

The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal.

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….

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses..

What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?.

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that ne….

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting..

In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once t….

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….