One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent...When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion?

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.