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

I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering, so as to pursue my vocation, otherwise I would consider myself a rogue - which is what many people think I am, for that matter.

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

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

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.