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

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.

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?

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 have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

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