The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

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.

I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.