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Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.
Civilization is paralysis.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Civilization is what makes you sick.
Art = a mad search for individualism.
Art is either revolution or plagiarism
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
I am entering into the truth, into nature.
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.
Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.
A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.
The work of a man is the explanation of the man.
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?
A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!
Where do we come from? What are We? Where are we going?
I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.
Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.
Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth
Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!
My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!
How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?
Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.
Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.
Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?
A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it.
Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.
Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.
Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists
Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.
A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.
On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.
Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.
When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.
Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.
In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.
The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain.
I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.
There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.
