I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes perceived, a world all to myself. I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful.

I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new means those deep inner ties that linked me to the very soil.

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set up my easel in full sunshine.

I seem initially to have followed Fauvism, and then to have followed in Cézanne's footsteps. Whatever - I do not mind... as long as first of all I remained Vlaminck.

When I work I always find something.

Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape.

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

JOH! Thank God I found you.”“I have 9022 gods listed in my database. Must I thank all of them?

Only the dull don’t doubt!

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

anything, anything is possible, if you can just see the sky.

I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with.

The only way to win a power struggle is to give it up.

All of our dreams can come true...

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.