Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.

What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.