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.

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

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.

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

Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.

It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.