I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

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.

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

Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.

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