This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.