Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.

If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.

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

I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colors, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition.

In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.