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

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.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

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

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the theoretical knowledge of them will lead him to use a certain tone in a certain place. But I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation.

When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.