Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

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

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.

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.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing absolutely real in the ordinary sense of the word but are intended to give rise to thoughts as music does.

I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world