Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

Nothing can be accomplished without love.

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

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.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.