Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Soon I’ll be old and I’ve done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I’ll become senile before I’ve finished what I’ve undertaken.

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author’s mind.

I am a great artist and I know it. It’s because I am that I have endured such sufferings.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

No one wants my painting because it is different from other people’s peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter’s part and yet won’t accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!

All the joys – animal and human – of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one’s will.

Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside – I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little – or there are many fools.