Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.

Where do we come from? What are We? Where are we going?

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.

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

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.

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.

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?