To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

An artist is an explorer.

When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.