You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.