When I work I always find something.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Grace is freely given by God.

Marriage is a full time job

A few of us are extraverts. A few of us are introverts. But most of us are ambiverts, sitting near the middle, not the edges, happily attuned to those around us. In some sense, we are born to sell.

Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk and that he is in love.

You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

Dreams can come true with God's great angels like you.

There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.

Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.

Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.