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

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.

Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was.

I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.