Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.

I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.