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.

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

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

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 too much. Art is an abstraction.

Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.

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.