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.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.

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?

In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?