"I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand…"

"In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Deat…"

"Comment voyez-vous cet arbre? Il est bien vert? Mettez donc du vert, le plus beau vert de votre palette; — et cette o…"

"Il est des parfums frais comme des chairs d'enfants, Doux comme les hautbois, verts comme les prairies, – Et d'autres…"

"Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materi…"

"If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is…"

"Human beings communicate through art with symbols that transcend the boundaries of time and culture."

"The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are stu…"

"Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail [in art] may well carry the most important unconscious symbo…"

"Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! – They will this time be dism…"