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

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

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

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

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 is right?

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.