Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do).

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

What a horrible thing yellow is.

And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.