The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.

The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.