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!

My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.

You have long known what I have tried to establish: the right to dare everything; yet the difficulty I have had finding enough money to live on has been too gr…

As I wanted to suggest a luxuriant and untamed type of nature, a tropical sun that sets aglow everything around it, I was obliged to give my figures a suitable…

No original Gauguins were to be seen in Australia, for post-impressionism was officially thought to be the vulgar effusion of five-thumbed lunatics.

Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he pa…