We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Don't waste your youth growing up.

Basically the French are all peasants.