I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much use; on the contrary it paralyses the imagination of the spectator, and obliges us to see the person in a certain way.

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

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