No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.