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.

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

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.

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment. Complete art which sums up all the others and completes them.

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

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.