Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

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.

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.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

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.