The more you love, the more you suffer.

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!