Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.

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 art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.

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.

Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.