Civilization is paralysis.

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

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.

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 experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.

Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

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.