One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

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

Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.

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

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

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 possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.