Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.
Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.
When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.
Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
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 something great and lasting.
Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.
There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.
Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!
The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain.
In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists
I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world
Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.
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.
A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.
A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.
Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!
Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?
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