I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.

Marriage is a dinner that begins with dessert.

It is easy to finish things. Nothing is simpler. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.

[People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. ... Nothing is simpler than to complete pictures in a superficial sense. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.

I am certainly not regenerating French art, but am struggling hard to accomplish something on an unlucky piece of paper which has done me no harm at all, and on which, believe me, I am doing nothing that is good... I hope things will improve eventually; as it is, I am pretty wretched.

I have always been a pencil.