Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

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.

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 means.

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 to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in my mind but to render, the way a child would, the concepts formed in my brain and to do this with the aid of nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.