It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.

I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.

If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.