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

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

A certain blue enters your soul

For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.

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.

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

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.