There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

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.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

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

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

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.