They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.

What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?