I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

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

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.

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.

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.